Damascus, two years ago, Wednesday 16 July 2014, President Bashar Hafez al-Assad was sworn in before the members of the People’s Assembly. Following the swearing-in ceremony, the President delivered a speech in which he first saluted the Syrian people.

President al-Assad :
“The war waged against the Syrian people is a dirty war. Despite all the injustice and the pain inflicted on every Syrian household, and despite all the blood and destruction, Syrians didn’t give up or give in. In fact, the exact opposite, as a people, we derive strength from adversity; the increased pressures drive us to be more defiant. We face attempts to humiliate us with more pride, dignity and self-confidence.

Here we are today, looking forward to the future and moving towards it with the determination and confidence that this future belongs to the people and nobody else. This country that has faced invaders since the dawn of history – the last of whom were the French colonizers who left less than seven decades ago – is still alive and capable of standing fast, building and regenerating life from the throes of catastrophes. This is how nations display their greatness, their history and their civilization. Countries are not measured by the size of their surface area or population, their wealth or their oil; they are measured by their culture and civilization, the role their people played in history, and by their will and their sovereignty in facing the challenges of the present and building the future”… … …

Full televised speech delivered by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on al-Quds Day on Friday July 2, 2016.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah :
“In this framework, we must highlight and assert the clear right which must be spoken of on this day -International al-Quds Day.
It must be strongly said that Palestine is from the sea to the river, and that its land is occupied, usurped, and stolen from its legitimate people and owners.

It must also be asserted that time does not change the usurped and robbed to a legitimate property for the robber and looter, and even if the entire world acknowledged that.

Thus “Israel” is a usurping, occupying, robbing, looting entity, and it had perpetrated all of that through terrorism.

It is forbidden to recognize this entity and give in to it and offer concessions to it.

It must rather be wiped from existence and the right must be fully restored to its owners”…

President Bashar al-Assad said that the Syrian people surprised the world with their unprecedented participation in the People’s Assembly elections, sending a clear message to the world that the greater the pressure gets, the more the Syrians commit to their sovereignty.

In a speech addressing the People’s Assembly of the 2nd legislative term on Tuesday, the President started with congratulating the Syrian people on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, hoping that in next Ramadan Syria will have recovered.

His Excellency said that:
“The terrorism of economy and the terrorism of explosives and massacres and shells are one and the same, so I assure you that our war against terrorism continues, not because we like wars, because they imposed war on us, but the bloodshed won’t end until terrorism is uprooted no matter where it is and regardless of the masks it wears”.

“How could those who spread the seeds of terrorism combat it” President al-Assad wondered, adding that..”Who wants to combat terrorism could do it through rational and realistic policies based on justice and the respect of peoples’ will of determining their future, managing their affairs, restoring their rights on the basis of spreading knowledge, combating ignorance, improving economy, raising awareness of the society as well as developing it”.

“Changes of the West cannot be counted on as long as they follow the double-standards policy,” the President said, adding that “we have not depended but on ourselves since the first day, hoping good intentions from the real friends of the Syrian people.”

This oppressed people against whom the evil forces have committed crimes of injustice and oppression, so indescribable and unspeakable as they are, with all their hatred and their arrogance leading them to despise all that is sacred and to trample all human values, and which exceeds with its barbarism, tyranny and crimes the wild beasts and monsters, under the banner of the accursed Satan and the standard of oppression and aggression, may God preserve us of them.

O my very dear and noble brothers, your proud and magnificent resistance in all arenas and battlefields, on the home front, in the struggle against the enemy agents and mercenaries who have sold their souls… … …

“I welcome you and thank you for today’s massive turnout. Allow me to talk in my own simple way as usual. I will talk and say the stance from my mind, heart, and emotions. I am telling you this so that no one wonders what I am saying. This is not the stance of deaf and fierce hearts.

Allow me also to talk quickly to benefit from the time as much as possible and grasp the points that I want to tackle.

In this meeting, our goal, firstly, is to announce our refusal, rejection, condemnation, and denunciation of the US-Saudi aggression against Yemen and its people.

We also announce our support, solidarity and sympathy with this noble, honorable, and oppressed people.

PRESIDENT AL-ASSAD: “THE WEST HAS NOT CHANGED POLICY, INTERVENTION IN TERRORISTS’ FAVOR MUST STOP FOR A SOLUTION TO SUCCEED”

President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Russian media in which he hailed the Russian initiative for inter-Syrian dialogue as positive and denied any direct dialogue between Syria and the US, stressing that there has been no real change in the American or Western policies on Syria so far.

(ENG) – President al-Assad: ISIS emergence capped wrong-headed policies of countries hostile to Syria. Any international effort should serve to bolster these reconciliations and pressure the countries backing terrorists with funds and arms to cease their support, the President pointed out. “[ISIS] has not emerged out of thin air. ISIS came to cap accumulating wrong-headed policies by parties involved in the war against Syria that have supported, armed and funded terrorist and takfiri organizations to undermine Syria and strike the Syrians’ unity, ” said the President.

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